ABSTRACT
This book spotlights and demystifies under-researched elements of research design to support successful research initiatives undertaken by students in African universities.
This volume marks a significant and important move way from research design books rooted in European and American socio-cultural context, and places emphasis on contextual realities in Africa. Attending to socio-cultural oral and written methods of eliciting data from participants; contextual sampling techniques; oral and third-party open ended survey instrumentation; and multi-prong data analysis schemes that emphasize ontological, epistemological, and axiological findings, these chapters constitute a novel and much-needed focus on realities and examples from the continent of Africa.
Written by African scholars, the book will appeal to post-graduate students and early-career scholars and researchers with interests in research methods across the social sciences.
1. Introduction 2. Theory and Methodological Dilemma for Research in Africa:
A Defense of Afrocentricity Frameworks 3. At a Disjuncture? African Research Epistemologies and Ontologies 4. Literature Assessment 5. Africa’s Narratives & Oral Cultures 6. Scientific Review of Research Protocols, Ethics and Academic Integrity in Africa 7. Qualitative Research & Application in the African Context 8. Quantitative Research & Application in African Context 9. Multiple Research Methods and the African Context 10. Mixed Method Research and the African Context 11. Language, Translation of Measurement Instruments, and Data Analysis
